Life and Manners: From The Autobiography of an English Opium-eaterTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - 347 sider |
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... whole island , and was some years ago pointed out by the Quarterly Review as a desideratum not easily supplied — viz . a guide to the whole wealth of art , above ground and below , which , in this land of ours , every square mile ...
... whole island , and was some years ago pointed out by the Quarterly Review as a desideratum not easily supplied — viz . a guide to the whole wealth of art , above ground and below , which , in this land of ours , every square mile ...
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... whole body of the merchants in this place lived in a style which , for its mixed liberality and elegance , resembled that of Venetian merchants , there was very little about themselves or their establishments of external splendor , that ...
... whole body of the merchants in this place lived in a style which , for its mixed liberality and elegance , resembled that of Venetian merchants , there was very little about themselves or their establishments of external splendor , that ...
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... whole general literature both of England and Scotland for the preceding generation . It was impossible to name a book in the classes of history , biography , voyages and travels , belles - lettres , or popular divinity , which was ...
... whole general literature both of England and Scotland for the preceding generation . It was impossible to name a book in the classes of history , biography , voyages and travels , belles - lettres , or popular divinity , which was ...
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... whole force and value of a language . How often , upon the table of a modern litterateur , languid , perhaps , and dyspeptic , so as to be in no condition for enjoying any- thing , do we see books lying in six or eight different ...
... whole force and value of a language . How often , upon the table of a modern litterateur , languid , perhaps , and dyspeptic , so as to be in no condition for enjoying any- thing , do we see books lying in six or eight different ...
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... whole previous feelings , for ever fixed that vast subject upon my mind . I was then nearly seven years old . In the next four years , during which we continued to live at the same house , nothing remarkable occurred , except the visit ...
... whole previous feelings , for ever fixed that vast subject upon my mind . I was then nearly seven years old . In the next four years , during which we continued to live at the same house , nothing remarkable occurred , except the visit ...
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Side 38 - Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings ; Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road, Or on the...